Physicians are often the first point of contact when children's speech begins to be disrupted by stuttering behaviors such as sound repetitions and prolongations. For this reason, we feel it is important that they are accurately informed with regards to the nature of stuttering and the available treatment options before making referrals to speech-language pathologists. Stuttering is by definiti...

Stuttering is a speech disorder during which the flow of interrupted by involuntary pauses and repetition sounds. identification an interesting interdisciplinary domain research problem involving pathology, psychology, acoustics, signal processing, making it hard complicated to detect. Recent developments in machine deep learning have dramatically revolutionized domain, however minimal attentio...

The eVects of dopamine on developmental stuttering was studied in a 44 year old man with developmental stuttering and Parkinson’s disease during three levodopa “on” periods and three “oV” periods. When compared with the “oV” periods, during the “on”’ periods he demonstrated an increase of speech dysfluencies. These findings lend support to the dopamine hypothesis of developmental stuttering. (J...

PURPOSE This study investigated the relationship between self-reported stuttering severity ratings and educational attainment. METHOD Participants were 147 adults seeking treatment for stuttering. At pretreatment assessment, each participant reported the highest educational level they had attained and rated their typical and worst stuttering severity on a 9-point scale for a range of speaking...

BACKGROUND Stuttering and word-finding difficulty (WFD) are two types of communication difficulty that occur frequently in children who learn English as an additional language (EAL), as well as those who only speak English. The two disorders require different, specific forms of intervention. Prior research has described the symptoms of each type of difficulty. This paper describes the developme...

PURPOSE The study sought to identify major-specific, training, and cultural factors affecting attitudes toward stuttering of speech-language pathology (SLP) students. METHOD Eight convenience samples of 50 students each from universities in the USA and Poland filled out the Public Opinion Survey of Human Attributes-Stuttering (POSHA-S) in English or Polish, respectively. USA samples included ...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Stuttering is a complex disease that influences occupational, social, academic and emotional achievements. The aim of this study was to correlate the stuttering severity index with speaking rates of mothers and children. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross-sectional study, at the child rehabilitation clinics of Tehran city. METHODS 35 pairs of mothers and their children who stutt...

This paper explains the complexity of personal experience of stuttering using self-identity as a lens. It draws on a narrative life history study of five male and two female adults with developmental stuttering. Their experiences of stuttering were subjected to a narrative, interpretive analysis. Two primary self-identity trajectories viz. DisOther and Able were identified in relation to their ...

Stuttering means that children have difficulties in rhythm, sound, syllable, word and phrase repetitions, or flow of speech cut in the form of extension or block form. In the International Classification of Diseases (1992) ) (International Classification of Diseases10 “ICD-10”), Stuttering was defined as speech disturbances emerging as a result of repetitions or cut of one sound involuntarily a...

UNLABELLED The relationship between anxiety and stuttering is equivocal from both clinical and empirical perspectives. This study examined the relationship within the framework of the multidimensional interaction model of anxiety that includes an approach to general anxiety in specific situations [J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 60 (1991) 919]. Ninety-four males aged 18-43, half disfluent speakers and h...